It is my privilege to enclose herewith Part One of The Master Key System.
Would you bring into your life more power? Get the power consciousness.
More health? Get the health consciousness. More happiness? Get the happiness
consciousness. Live the spirit of these things until they become yours
by right. It will then become impossible to keep them from you. The
things of the world are fluid to a power within man by which he rules
them.
You need not acquire this power. You already have it. But you want
to understand it; you want to use it; you want to control it; you
want to impregnate yourself with it, so that you can go forward and
carry the world before you.
Day by day as you go on and on, as you gain momentum, as your inspiration
deepens, as your plans crystallize, as you gain understanding, you
will come to realize that this world is no dead pile of stones and
timber, but that it is a living thing! It is made up of the beating
hearts of humanity. It is a thing of life and beauty.
It is evident that it requires understanding to work with material
of this description, but those who come into this understanding, are
inspired by a new light, a new force, they gain confidence and greater
power each day, they realize their hopes and their dreams come true,
life has a deeper, fuller, clearer meaning than before.
And, now, Part One.
PART ONE
1. That much gathers more is true on every plane of existence and
that loss leads to greater loss is equally true.
2. Mind is creative, and conditions, environment and all experiences
in life are the result of our habitual or predominant mental attitude.
3. The attitude of mind necessarily depends upon what we think. Therefore,
the secret of all power, all achievement and all possession depends
upon our method of thinking.
4. This is true because we must "be" before we can "do,"
and we can "do" only to the extent which we "are,"
and what we "are" depends upon what we "think."
5. We cannot express powers that we do not possess. The only way
by which we may secure possession of power is to become conscious
of power, and we can never become conscious of power until we learn
that all power is from within.
6. There is a world within – a world of thought and feeling and power;
of light and life and beauty and, although invisible, its forces are
mighty.
7. The world within is governed by mind. When we discover this world
we shall find the solution for every problem, the cause for every
effect; and since the world within is subject to our control, all
laws of power and possession are also within our control.
8. The world without is a reflection of the world within. What appears
without is what has been found within. In the world within may be
found infinite Wisdom, infinite Power, infinite Supply of all that
is necessary, waiting for unfoldment, development and expression.
If we recognize these potentialities in the world within they will
take form in the world without.
9. Harmony in the world within will be reflected in the world without
by harmonious conditions, agreeable surroundings, the best of everything.
It is the foundation of health and a necessary essential to all greatness,
all power, all attainment, all achievement and all success.
10. Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our
thoughts, and to determine for ourselves how any experience is to
affect us.
11. Harmony in the world within results in optimism and affluence;
affluence within results in affluence without.
12. The world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions
of the consciousness within.
13. If we find wisdom in the world within, we shall have the understanding
to discern the marvelous possibilities that are latent in this world
within, and we shall be given the power to make these possibilities
manifest in the world without.
14. As we become conscious of the wisdom in the world within, we
mentally take possession of this wisdom, and by taking mental possession
we come into actual possession of the power and wisdom necessary to
bring into manifestation the essentials necessary for our most complete
and harmonious development.
15. The world within is the practical world in which the men and
women of power generate courage, hope, enthusiasm, confidence, trust
and faith, by which they are given the fine intelligence to see the
vision and the practical skill to make the vision real.
16. Life is an unfoldment, not accretion. What comes to us in the
world without is what we already possess in the world within.
17. All possession is based on consciousness. All gain is the result
of an accumulative consciousness. All loss is the result of a scattering
consciousness.
18. Mental efficiency is contingent upon harmony; discord means confusion;
therefore, he who would acquire power must be in harmony with Natural
Law.
19. We are related to the world without by the objective mind. The
brain is the organ of this mind and the cerebro-spinal system of nerves
puts us in conscious communication with every part of the body. This
system of nerves responds to every sensation of light, heat, odor,
sound and taste.
20. When this mind thinks correctly, when it understands the truth,
when the thoughts sent through the cerebro-spinal nervous system to
the body are constructive, these sensations are pleasant, harmonious.
21. The result is that we build strength, vitality and all constructive
forces into our body, but it is through this same objective mind that
all distress, sickness, lack, limitation and every form of discord
and inharmony is admitted to our lives. It is therefore through the
objective mind, by wrong thinking, that we are related to all destructive
forces.
22. We are related to the world within by the subconscious mind.
The solar plexus is the organ of this mind; the sympathetic system
of nerves presides over all subjective sensations, such as joy, fear,
love, emotion, respiration, imagination and all other subconscious
phenomena. It is through the subconscious that we are connected with
the Universal Mind and brought into relation with the Infinite constructive
forces of the Universe.
23. It is the coordination of these two centers of our being, and
the understanding of their functions, which is the great secret of
life. With this knowledge we can bring the objective and subjective
minds into conscious cooperation and thus coordinate the finite and
the infinite. Our future is entirely within our own control. It is
not at the mercy of any capricious or uncertain external power.
24. All agree that there is but one Principle or Consciousness pervading
the entire Universe, occupying all space, and being essentially the
same in kind at every point of its presence. It is all powerful, all
wisdom and always present. All thoughts and things are within Itself.
It is all in all.
25. There is but one consciousness in the universe able to think;
and when it thinks, its thoughts become objective things to it. As
this Consciousness is omnipresent, it must be present within every
individual; each individual must be a manifestation of that Omnipotent,
Omniscient and Omnipresent Consciousness.
26. As there is only one Consciousness in the Universe that is able
to think it necessarily follows that your consciousness is identical
with the Universal Consciousness, or, in other words, all mind is
one mind. There is no dodging this conclusion.
27. The consciousness that focuses in your brain cells is the same
consciousness which focuses in the brain cells of every other individual.
Each individual is but the individualization of the Universal, the
Cosmic Mind.
28. The Universal Mind is static or potential energy; it simply is;
it can manifest only through the individual, and the individual can
manifest only through the Universal. They are one.
29. The ability of the individual to think is his ability to act
on the Universal and bring it into manifestation. Human consciousness
consists only in the ability of man to think. Mind in itself is believed
to be a subtle form of static energy, from which arises the activities
called ‘thought,’ which is the dynamic phase of mind. Mind is static
energy, thought is dynamic energy - the two phases of the same thing.
Thought is therefore the vibratory force formed by converting static
mind into dynamic mind.
30. As the sum of all attributes are contained in the Universal Mind,
which is Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, these attributes
must be present at all times in their potential form in every individual.
Therefore, when the individual thinks, the thought is compelled by
its nature to embody itself in an objectivity or condition which will
correspond with its origin.
31. Every thought therefore is a cause and every condition an effect;
for this reason it is absolutely essential that you control your thoughts
so as to bring forth only desirable conditions.
32. All power is from within, and is absolutely under your control;
it comes through exact knowledge and by the voluntary exercises of
exact principles.
33. It should be plain that when you acquire a thorough understanding
of this law, and are able to control your thought processes, you can
apply it to any condition; in other words, you will have come into
conscious cooperation with Omnipotent law which is the fundamental
basis of all things.
34. The Universal Mind is the life principle of every atom which
is in existence; every atom is continually striving to manifest more
life; all are intelligent, and all are seeking to carry out the purpose
for which they were created.
35. A majority of mankind lives in the world without; few have found
the world within, and yet it is the world within that makes the world
without; it is therefore creative and everything which you find in
your world without has been created by you in the world within.
36. This system will bring you into a realization of power which
will be yours when you understand this relation between the world
without and the world within. The world within is the cause, the world
without the effect; to change the effect you must change the cause.
37. You will at once see that this is a radically new and different
idea; most men try to change effects by working with effects. They
fail to see that this is simply changing one form of distress for
another. To remove discord, we must remove the cause, and this cause
can be found only in the world within.
38. All growth is from within. This is evident in all nature. Every
plant, every animal, every human is a living testimony to this great
law, and the error of the ages is in looking for strength or power
from without.
39. The world within is the Universal fountain of supply, and the
world without is the outlet to the stream. Our ability to receive
depends upon our recognition of this Universal Fountain, this Infinite
Energy of which each individual is an outlet, and so is one with every
other individual.
40. Recognition is a mental process, mental action is therefore the
interaction of the individual upon the Universal Mind, and as the
Universal Mind is the intelligence which pervades all space and animates
all living things, this mental action and reaction is the law of causation,
but the principle of causation does not obtain in the individual but
in the Universal Mind. It is not an objective faculty but a subjective
process, and the results are seen in an infinite variety of conditions
and experiences.
41. In order to express life there must be mind; nothing can exist
without mind. Everything which exists is some manifestation of this
one basic substance from which and by which all things have been created
and are continually being recreated.
42. We live in a fathomless sea of plastic mind substance. This substance
is ever alive and active. It is sensitive to the highest degree. It
takes form according to the mental demand. Thought forms the mold
or matrix from which the substance expresses.
43. Remember that it is in the application alone that the value consists,
and that a practical understanding of this law will substitute abundance
for poverty, wisdom for ignorance, harmony for discord and freedom
for tyranny, and certainly there can be no greater blessing than these
from a material and social standpoint.
44. Now make the application: Select a room where you can be alone
and undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your
thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen
minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for
a week until you secure full control of your physical being.
45. Many will find this extremely difficult; others will conquer
with ease, but it is absolutely essential to secure complete control
of the body before you are ready to progress. Next week you will receive
instructions for the next step; in the meantime you must have mastered
this one.
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